Sentence examples for mathematical challenge from inspiring English sources

Conflict is akin to a mathematical challenge — how to corral both extremes of opinion into the same tent?

"Attaining 10 percent profit growth with a portfolio rich in fibers is certainly a mathematical challenge," said P. J. Juvekar, an analyst with Salomon Smith Barney.

The main mathematical challenge in breaking current codes is factoring very large numbers, which for classical computers is the equivalent of trying combination after combination to see if it opens a lock.

Even so, the administration and Congress would have a political and mathematical challenge in eliminating or reducing tax breaks enough to lower corporate rates as they propose to do without adding to deficits.

In fact, the beautiful elegance of that theory is a little deceptive – actually solving those equations to get a real prediction, which tells you what kind of experiment you need to build to test the prediction, is a major mathematical challenge and a towering achievement in itself.

However, the scale of the mathematical challenge facing the Vermont senator in his quest to prize the nomination away from Clinton, even off the back of a major win in California, was made plain when he was quizzed by reporters over his chances of altering the all-important delegate count.

Avid golfer, tennis player, loved mathematical challenges.

The mathematical challenges facing Sanders have prompted some Democrats to suggest he should bow out of the race, rather than risk inflicting harm on Clinton's prospects of winning the White House against Donald Trump in November.

Problems solved by the slime mold include not only the shortest path out of a maze, but also other complex mathematical challenges (like creating a Voronoi diagram and a Delaunay triangulation).

Erdős would show up—often unannounced on the doorstep of a fellow mathematician, declare "My brain is open!" and stay as long as his colleague served up interesting mathematical challenges.

While a 19-year-old undergraduate at Moscow State University and supervised by Dr. Kolmogorov, he came up with the final piece of a proof answering the 13th problem on the list of 23 unsolved mathematical challenges that the mathematician David Hilbert compiled in 1900.